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In Reply to: RE: Understanding an engineer posted by Michael Samra on April 14, 2017 at 16:14:25
All they need is a tape measure a straight edge and a 180 degree arc drawing compass. Plus a knowledge of Pythagoras.
That would be MUCH safer, too.
:-)!
If it has a flag on it?
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Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
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But, with the woman's approach, all they needed was a wrench and a tape measure. Who carries a compass around with them?
Even better, without even leaving the office, one of them could've called the Mechanical Plant Department or Architectural Planning, and asked "What's the height of the flagpole outside the entrance to building 17?" They'd have the answer within a matter of months.
:)
:-)
And, have you ever undone the bolts at the base of a flagpole? On your own?
I had a little bit to do with flagpoles in my time in the army, and I can assure you that she'd have needed both the engineers, at the very least, to hold the pole still, and then lower it, slowly.
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Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
I know a woman who always has a nice Swiss army knife and a tape measure with her, since she's in the interior design biz. She usually leaves the wrench and pliers to her helpers.
:)
But it wouldn't be anywhere near as humorous.
How about the guy with liberal arts degree? Do you want fries with that? LOL
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
Engineers have given us a safe world to live in. Think about it.
The 'liberal arts' aka 'the humanities' is where engineers get the value system that drives them to keep on building a safe world for us.
How many engineers, systems analysts and 'liberal arts' graduates do you actually know? And if you do know any, do you realise how special they are?
My FILaw had a 'liberal arts' double-honours degree in Classics (Latin, Ancient History and Greek) and in English, from Sydney University. Later on he received an MA from London University College.
Most of these people died before they could tell us what they did during the war.
Just after the war he was offered a post, at our equivalent of West Point, as a lecturer in English. He retired as Professor.
Not long before he died he received the United Kingdom's 'Bletchely Park Medal' officially called the 'Government Code and Cypher School Medal' for his work during WWII in code breaking.
Bletchely Park is where Britain/UK finally broke Enigma, and the Geheimschrieber codes.
Useless people these 'liberal arts' folks, aren't they?
Maybe not?
Without brilliant humanities / 'liberal arts' people the Western Allies would not have won the code-war in WWII.
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Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Tim,
I understood your post just fine and I realize what you are saying.I figured you posted the parts you found funny and I posted the parts I found the most funny.
I guess maybe we have a different perception of humor in the areas we come from. Being so many college grads with liberal arts degrees are not working in their respective fields and many are working at burger joints,this is why we find it funny because there is so much of it.I wasn't trying to analyze what you were saying or thinking one way or the other.I was simply pointing out the part I found funny.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
First off, Mikey, thank you for the polite response! ;~)!
your signature tag by HL Mencken is, in its own way a statement of Mencken's own 'liberal arts' limitations.
In fact, as I have showed you - with the bus driver/conductor problem, there sometimes really are, simple, and clear solutions that dissolve the problem / make the problem go away.
HL Mencken happens to be one of my favourite American writers, but his limited vision / training drives that quote.
Some problems, like radical islamisicism, just don't have simple solutions. Bother / bugger, eh?!
So when HL Mencken says that NO such simple gordian-knot-cut solutions can exist he is just plain wrong. Try to believe me here.
One day soon I will be able to report on how the new 63s plus swarm subs is sounding.
When you are in full Summer, and I'm in full WINTER, I will be able to tell you if I prefer SS to the LEAKs strapped in mono, into the filtered 63s. AS you prescribed.
Tired old, grumpy, cancerous Timbo.
:-)! and ;-)!
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
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